Pact for Bucharest - May 2008

In our opinion, this is a platform for action for a minimum development of urban natural
capital, which may be settled by consensus between the parties and to be promoted
simultaneously at two levels:

(i) directly, by administrative decision of the local authority, by those who will win
elections;

(ii) indirectly, through support in Parliament, under ownership by the whole team party
this Pact, when the measure involves - or reinforces the legislative changes.

Signatory organizations call citizens interested in the fate of Bucharest to follow if
people will ask you vote are willing to assume a program to increase the transparency
and quality of governance in the capital of Romania.

Wednesday, May 28 12:00'll make public the names of the candidates who have signed
and who are thus committed to implement, and those who have not signed the Pact for
Bucharest.

Invite candidates and parties to commit, by signing pact that they will make public every
6 months, a report on performance measures in Pact, where will be chosen (if the
parties a report on how the local have met the agreed Pact).

Sorin Oprescu - PC - PDL - PNL - PSD 

PACTUL PENTRU BUCUREŞTI

mandate for 2008-2012

A. Strategy Bucharest

In the last years, Bucharest, like all big cities in Romania, has turned huge, but
only as a result of actions based on interest punctual and individual. It takes analysis to
identify the values that give the city identity. It needs a coherent plan of development,
with targets related to the common interests of residents, based on multi-criteria
analysis and inter-disciplinary participation and urban actors (inhabitants, investors,
non-governmental organizations, professionals, public and private institutions) for a
harmonious mediation between the interests of present and future.

1. It will, according international practice, a Strategy for the Development of
Bucharest, and based on it, updating the General Urban Plan (PUG).

Deadline: 1 June 2010.

Decision of urban development is to unify the General City Hall.

2. It will expedite the process of restitution of properties for those folders that do not
involve other institutions such as courts.
Deadline: 1 June 2012 to complete the files that are exclusively the competence
committee PMB.

In the process of restitution for property assets that are of public interest (parks,
sporting, schools, kindergartens, zoological gardens, sides water, roads, etc.).

Expropriations will be done for reasons of public utility and Mayor's Office will provide
local budget funds.

3. It will create territorial reserves Bucharest.

B. Urbanism

Urbanism meaning is to harmonize interest group with the individual. There are no
planning if, as happens in Romania, private investors can control sites PUZ area large
or small-or, absurdly, on a single piece - without consulting the neighbors. Once
approved these documents, with a derogation of the PUG, they completely change the
profile by changing key parameters such as height or the indicators of employment and
rate of use of land without people to learn or have a say. Coherent urban development
of Bucharest was destroyed by the over 1,000 PUZ sites of its kind approved in recent
years, to pressure from private interests.

4. It will stop the current practice outrageous and unique in Europe "urbanism
private fee" first local administrative decision (rejection of proposals for private PUZ)
and then amended the law by supporting the law 350.

Urban Area Plans - PUZ amends regulations on urbanism planning will be
initiated only by PMB, through a procedure consistent with international practices
(competitive solution for specifications, transparency, public participation).

The exception to this rule is only possible for individuals or legal entities by
proposing a memorandum addressed PMB initiating PUZ detailed planning (operational
planning) development of an area, only to parcels that are owned and only provided that
rules laid down by PUG (particularly the provisions relating to maximum height allowed
and CUT).

5. Certificate of Urbanism (CU) will be an act of information and will not send the
initiation of a PUZ.

6. Any work of architecture, urbanism and art involving public funds, land and
property owned or administered by public authorities will be made by competitive
solutions.

7. Regardless of the legal regime, the mayors of the District will implement the
measures abolishing buildings or elements of illegal construction (to recover fines from
demolition costs), and will not use the procedure "entry legally".

8. It will prohibit the display advertising on exterior walls of buildings.

9. Will be restructure the direction of planning from the mayoral and general
sectors for to re-internalize the opinion of the planning and empowerment of local
government. (The making false outsourcing of these activities by transferring the
responsibility of the advisory committee and not the technical apparatus of the public
institution)

In terms of the big city urban development and increase business efficiency
compartments of planning and mayoral and general sectors size will be adequate staff.

For better training of employees in the directions of urban services, will make stringent
checks and skills will be required specialization (post-graduate programs, continuing
education courses, etc.)

10. Will establish rigorous and transparent procedures for analysis of planning
documents and projects for approval of construction in the specialized departments of
city halls. Will be a clear indication the competence of the specialized compartments of
local government in relation to the technical advisory committees.

11. Members of local councils and mayors are obliged to respect the advisory
opinion of the Technical Committee and not to approve planning documents that do not
have that opinion.

12. Technical Committee members will respect the constraints arising from the
avoidance of conflict of interest.

13. Technical Commission of Urban Planning and Territorial the mayor of
Bucharest will expand the powers and function after a regulation.

14. Will be a reassessment of the role and work of the technical advisory
committee which will decide on the projects point to what I see in a few minutes, but will
consider key issues of city development and will evaluate major projects, based on
technical reports prepared by specialized departments of the city halls (including
projects for construction permits in the central area in protected areas, areas which
were subject to a Plan Urban Area).

Deadline: December 2008.

15. Will be reused Urban Planning Center of the Bucharest City Hall so that it
becomes a center of reflection where to be prepared and developed strategies for
development, development programs, operational plans, measures which are based
urban policies of the city.

Deadline: December 2008

C. Transport

16. It will create a transport system in the unit for transport and the underground
area, which build on existing railway infrastructure and to enable users to have a single
type of ticket or subscription transport.

17. Priority will be given to extend the subway neighborhoods of blocks with high
density of population expansion and consistent color system dedicated for buses and
trolley buses.

18. All transmission lines have a time displayed and respected.
Deadline: 1 June 2010

19. Will expand and improve systems that encourage non-motorized movement:
tracks and rast for cyclists, green roads and pedestrian routes.

20. It will observe the legal provisions for carts accessibility for people with
disabilities, carts for children in all public buildings, buildings of public utility and to all
metro stations.

21. Non-residents parking in the central area will be charged and limited in time.

22. It will build the parking lot rate differential on the two ring road of the city
(cheaper on the outside ring).

23. Contracts administration and collection of fees for parking on the public
domain will be assigned exclusively by public auction without the possibility of annual
renewal is automatic and will definitely contract by sub-letting of parking places.

24. It will build and equip parking lot for those functions which attract numerous
public (trade, services) which have been authorized before HGMB 66 of 2006 which
sought to ensure the required number of parking inside the parcel.

25. By approving a development plan for commercial network as part of
Development Strategy and the Urban General Plan, will let commercial building large
only on the HG 1454 of 2004 and will impose compliance of buildings in relation with the
context in which it is placed.

D. Green spaces and sporting

26. Will be prohibited construction of terraces and restaurants in the parks on
more than 2% of the total park, square, public garden.

27. Will be prohibited advertising panels on green spaces.

28. Will not change the destination of green spaces.

29. They will divide the land for schools and high schools.

30. Will not grant or sell, and will rehabilitate sports foundation in state desertion,
through partnership with government for the state-owned.

31. It will create new green spaces. By June 2012, Bucharest must have 26
square meters of green space per capita and per capita can go to a park or garden
within 15 minutes walking.

32. It will fund green inventorize within one year and then be continuously
monitored the status and operations which are on it.

33. Will plant 600,000 trees of alignment.

34. Local Authority will self-refer to the pollution and will impose fines drastic.

E. Heritage History

It may find a lack of fundamental dimensions of urban policy: the protection and
restoration of historic monuments and urban areas of heritage value. Even if there are
regulations on theoretical heritage values, while these rules may be modified by PUZ
sites or by de-grading the monuments, the effectiveness of regulations is virtually zero.

35. By decision of CGMB will be re-vote legislation urbanism "PUZ Protected
Areas" as the latest regulations in force in order to meet these regulations where there
were still granted the construction permits. During the 2008-2012 term, will not approve
the Urban Area Plans to amend the town planning regulations.
Deadline: 1 October 2008.

36. It will fund inventorize buildings with architectural value which are not
historical. They are classified by decision CGMB. It will prohibit demolitions in Protected
Areas and the Central Zone until the inventory for each of them.

37. It will propose a specific program of protection and rehabilitation of historical
monuments and protected areas.
Deadline: June 1 2009.

38. It will create a structure in the PMB for the owners of buildings with heritage
value.

Deadline: 1 January 2009

39. It will establish a system of severe penalties for owners of protected property
which causes or allows degradation. To have a real protection of classified buildings,
are necessary measures in stages, at specific intervals, with coercive measures in
crescendo, until the expropriation.

F. Transparency decision

40. Will guarantee the transparency of discussions on all draft normative acts of
local councils from Mayor and the District of mayoral, and especially the decision on
investment, public procurement, concessions and a public-private partnerships.

41. In view of transparency of institutional mechanisms administrative complaint,
local authorities are committed to making public decisions sanctioning civil servants and
contract employees of subordination.

42. Will be adopted by CGMB "White Paper consultation of citizens", which will
establish principles and methodology of information and consultation of the population
for different types of decisions and projects CGMB and CL sector.

Deadline: 1 June 2009

43. For any contract signed by a local authority must be made public for the cost
increases the total amount of investment if they exceed the 15% inflation.

44. In a year will create an Information Office in PMB to make the office available
to the public all planning approved in the last ten years and the pending approval.

45. Ads for all initiatives planning, construction and demolition will be displayed
in areas that will be operated and the information desk, at least two months before
discussing them in the City Council.

46. Individual vote of all members of the Technical Committees will be recorded
in writing and the minutes will be made public immediately after the meeting.

G. Changes to legislative

47. Signatory parties commits to support legislative amendments in Parliament
alleged measures proposed above, and in particular:

• Amend the provisions of law 350 which generates derogation of urban planning situations.

Deadline: 30 June 2008.

• Efficiency legislation in the protection of monuments. Parties undertake to introduce
in Law 422 on the protection of historic monuments category of "building with
architectural value, not demolished".

• Approval by the Chamber of Deputies of Government Emergency Ordinance
114/2007 prohibiting the change of destination green spaces.

Deadline: 30 June 2008.

• Approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the Law 24/2007 (on the regulation of green
spaces in urban areas).

Deadline: 30 June 2008.

• Amend the Law 33/1994, by a declaration of public parks, botanical gardens and
zoo, a sporting and leisure activities.
Deadline: 30 June 2008.

• Issuance of a normative act that would introduce mandatory filing to secretaries of
local councils and county councils, a form of compliance with the provision of Law
52/2003 to file a submission with the administrative law, to exercise control of legality.